What are cervical spine CT scans? Here's a look at this procedure and why you might need it, including how scans with and without contrast differ.

Can you see a brain aneurysm on a CT scan without contrast? Some types of brain aneurysms can be detected on a CT scan without the use of contrast solution.

Your local radiologist, however, may not be comfortable interpreting CT scans without the contrast and might have the final say.

A 15-ICU multicenter validation effort led by Université de Montréal to test CT scans as a brain-death diagnostic tool reports that brainstem CT imaging alone cannot confirm neurological death ...

MRI scans use strong magnetic forces and radio waves to create images. They can scan bone, organs, and tissue, which makes them ideal for a complex body part like the head.

A shoulder arthrogram is a technique that uses contrast dye to identify specific shoulder injuries. It’s used in X-rays, CT scans, or MRI scans to highlight areas of soft tissue damage. It’s ...

Hundreds of hospitals are routinely performing a type of chest scan that experts say should be used rarely, subjecting patients to double doses of radiation and driving up health-care costs.

COVID-19 shutdown causes surprise global shortage of ‘contrast fluids’ used in CT scans, X-rays and MRIs Plus the pandemic's effect on bus lines, bird flu's impact and why point-of-sale loans ...

As a worldwide shortage of contrast dye for medical imaging continues, a new UCSF research letter in JAMA quantified strategies to safely reduce dye use in computed tomography (CT) by up to 83%. CT is ...